nathan hammond

I've been fiddling around with YouTube's swfArgs['fmt_map'] value to see if I can use it to programmatically identify which formats exist for a given video but I'm running into a wall... I don't have a large enough sample set to confirm my results, and the YouTube HD shift is so recent that there aren't other resources. ...

Update x2 Out with the old, in with the new. It has been quite a while since this article was written, and it was seriously out of date. I have updated the bookmarklets, included here for convenience. Be sure to use these links here at the top, and click and drag them to your bookmarks bar. ...

UPDATE PART TWO This issue has been distilled much further and appears to be with how Chrome handles triggering of the DOMContentLoaded event on navigation forward and backward when there are inline scripts. I've updated the bug report (Issue 151) with a very simple test case that demonstrates this. Turns out it wasn't related to forms ...

Today was a much different day than those prior. I ended up doing a lot more talking about things than attending presentations. Today started with Brian Dillard's presentation called Making Friends with the Browser which covered the reasons for the need of JavaScript history managers and what the current state of the art is. Being my ...

Today was an incredibly long day of sessions—effectively 12 hours (I originally typed years) of activity. It started with Brendan Eich and a presentation about the ever-evolving language that is JavaScript. It was titled Faster Than Light JavaScript and really had more than its fair share of bad jokes in it (I loved every one of ...